Minor nerd point: On the first slide of ‘Every British Actor: Game of Thrones and Harry Potter Division’ you show Jim Broadbent in the middle and right and Jonathan Pryce on the left. Right episode though, Jim Broadbent was also in ‘The Curse of the Fatal Death’. Also Jonathan Pryce was of course in Game of Thrones, but not Harry Potter.

I was hoping for the real-life Timey-Wimey. Real life actor Doctor Who #5 (Peter Davidson) had a daughter (Georgia) who played the Daughter of #10 (David Tennant). The actors got married in real life and their first child was a girl. So as the Meme says…The Doctor’s Daughter, played the Doctor’s Daughter who gave birth to the Doctor’s Daughter.

It’s like James Bond – the first one you see will usually be “the one”. In my case, Ecclestone, but I like Tennant just as much now. Smith is OK and Capaldi has grown on me a lot. Not seen the female Doctor yet.

Friend: What’s Doctor Who about?
Me: Its a show about a guy who *inhales* blew up his home planet, caused the earth to fo boom several times, killed off his greatest enemies just to bring them back, blew up the moon, caused the Titanic to fall on London, planned a bank heist not knowing that he came up with the plan, almost killed Hitler by accident, is on Queen Elizabeth’s hit list, tried to stop and evil doer just to find out that there was no villain for that week (which greatly disappointed him), meet the Devil, showed a girl that she was the cause of her fear of monsters under the bed, and shows us that Christmas is not as jolly as you think it is.
Friend: That’s it?
Me: Oh no. There’s more but I’m not describing 13 years of quality television.

NEVER BE CRUEL NEVER BE COWARDLY….and never ever eat pears, remember hate is always foolish and love is always wise, always try to be nice but never fail to be kind oh and you mustn’t tell and anyone your name no one would understand it anyway except…… except children, children can hear it. Sometimes- if their heart is in the right place and the stars are too, children can hear your name, but nobody else…nobody ever…..laugh hard run fast be kind…doctor…..i let you go ~Peter Capaldi the 12th doctor )~

Am I the only one that thought this speech was wack? Like, who is he talking to? (Yes I know, himself, but it’s obvious it’s more to the audience). He’s flaying about the set like some high school/gcse drama student, giving a dragged out speech that goes on too long, echoes Matt Smith’s way too much, and is just way too on the nose.

It was like Steven Moffat was late giving in an assignment, rushed a lengthy bit of waffle, and hit submit. Capaldi deserved a lot better.

+Guys McFellas That’s true. Instead they send you back in time where you live your life getting old in a time that isn’t your own, trapped there. That or get your neck broken and your vocal chords used.

I’ve never met someone who doesn’t like women in lead roles. Are you sure these people exist, or is that just what you get told by media can only be the only possible explanation when millions of fans don’t like something that happens to have a woman in it (as most things will).
I take it all these people who don’t like women in lead roles hated the film ‘Wonder Woman’, for instance? Strange that that film was so univerally popular, with high ratings from viewers? Maybe it’s because that film was well written? As opposed to, say, The Last Jedi, which had a nonsensical plot with characters acting in ways that made no sense? (Much like, say, the cubes episode written by Chris Chibnall, or pretty much anything else written by Chris Chibnall.) But wait! It had a woman in it, so clearly people didn’t hate it because of it’s rubbish plot, but because they hated women in lead roles! Even though all those SAME people loved Wonder Woman and other such films! Yes, yes, it’s very clear now.

+BlindEagle Ace *because they don’t like women to be in lead roles*
That is quite a bizarre leap in logic there and a somewhat ignorant generalisation.
What I find a little strange is how they are selling Whitaker, as if there has never been female leads/Timelords in the series before. Even The Master did the gender swap thing in the previous season via Missy. So not even that aspect is anything new, progressive or different.
Of course there was also the *lead Female* Timelord villain, The Rani, which again Classic Doctor Who did decades ago.

That is absurd, none of those are even remotely the same as having the PROTAGONIST/TITLE CHARACTER as a women for the first time. Yes, there will be a-holes that don’t like that. What planet are you on?